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I just got done reading the first 6 issues of this in the absolutely gorgeous hardcover DC put out recently. It's a thing of beauty, a solid blue dustjacket with simple white lettering and a die-cut logo that makes excellent use of the dead space on the first issues cover and is a nice precedent for the hidden "Spirit"s on those phenomonal double splashes.
I was astonished by the £25 price tag that Titan books had given it for bookstores, but managed to find it for half that in Forbidden Planet.
CONFESSION: I haven't read a single page of an Eisner comic.
Hmm, what to mention?
I love the way the first two issues throw you right into the world of The Spirit, giving you just the briefest of glimpses of the cast before the third issue gives you all the skinny. Those brief glimpses you get are just enough to tell you all you think you need to know about the characters. The way the third fills you in with the backstory at the same time as setting up what I assume is the through-arc of the run, and still feels complete is just amazing.
Cooke captures the pulpy feel so perfectly that the references to the modern world always catch me by surprise.
The narration at the start of the fourth issue makes me laugh even re-reading it, it's clearly Satin's handwriting, and the fact that it sounds like it should be coming from the mind of a character that sounds like The Spirit should, but doesn't, makes the solemnity of the folowing splash reveal absolutely side-splitting. Especially with Satin's childish "Crybaby".
Satin and Hussein Hussein are what I find myself begging for more of in future issues.
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